From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:09:20 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Merge branch 'cb/maint-unpack-trees-absense' X-Git-Tag: v1.6.2-rc0~167 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/f39adc250c3e554c437d027bbc06309a78fd026d?hp=7b9e3ce0255002075809917e0384cba3a0d18589 Merge branch 'cb/maint-unpack-trees-absense' * cb/maint-unpack-trees-absense: unpack-trees: remove redundant path search in verify_absent unpack-trees: fix path search bug in verify_absent unpack-trees: handle failure in verify_absent --- diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index a213e8e25b..d9adce585a 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ git-gc git-get-tar-commit-id git-grep git-hash-object +git-help git-http-fetch git-http-push git-imap-send @@ -117,6 +118,7 @@ git-show git-show-branch git-show-index git-show-ref +git-stage git-stash git-status git-stripspace diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index 62269e39c4..144ec32f12 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ MAN5_TXT=gitattributes.txt gitignore.txt gitmodules.txt githooks.txt \ gitrepository-layout.txt MAN7_TXT=gitcli.txt gittutorial.txt gittutorial-2.txt \ gitcvs-migration.txt gitcore-tutorial.txt gitglossary.txt \ - gitdiffcore.txt + gitdiffcore.txt gitworkflows.txt MAN_TXT = $(MAN1_TXT) $(MAN5_TXT) $(MAN7_TXT) MAN_XML=$(patsubst %.txt,%.xml,$(MAN_TXT)) @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ DOC_MAN7=$(patsubst %.txt,%.7,$(MAN7_TXT)) prefix?=$(HOME) bindir?=$(prefix)/bin htmldir?=$(prefix)/share/doc/git-doc +pdfdir?=$(prefix)/share/doc/git-doc mandir?=$(prefix)/share/man man1dir=$(mandir)/man1 man5dir=$(mandir)/man5 @@ -44,11 +45,13 @@ MANPAGE_XSL = callouts.xsl INSTALL?=install RM ?= rm -f DOC_REF = origin/man +HTML_REF = origin/html infodir?=$(prefix)/share/info MAKEINFO=makeinfo INSTALL_INFO=install-info DOCBOOK2X_TEXI=docbook2x-texi +DBLATEX=dblatex ifndef PERL_PATH PERL_PATH = /usr/bin/perl endif @@ -86,7 +89,11 @@ man7: $(DOC_MAN7) info: git.info gitman.info -install: man +pdf: user-manual.pdf + +install: install-man + +install-man: man $(INSTALL) -d -m 755 $(DESTDIR)$(man1dir) $(INSTALL) -d -m 755 $(DESTDIR)$(man5dir) $(INSTALL) -d -m 755 $(DESTDIR)$(man7dir) @@ -104,6 +111,10 @@ install-info: info echo "No directory found in $(DESTDIR)$(infodir)" >&2 ; \ fi +install-pdf: pdf + $(INSTALL) -d -m 755 $(DESTDIR)$(pdfdir) + $(INSTALL) -m 644 user-manual.pdf $(DESTDIR)$(pdfdir) + install-html: html sh ./install-webdoc.sh $(DESTDIR)$(htmldir) @@ -184,17 +195,23 @@ git.info: user-manual.texi user-manual.texi: user-manual.xml $(RM) $@+ $@ - $(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) user-manual.xml --to-stdout | $(PERL_PATH) fix-texi.perl >$@+ + $(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) user-manual.xml --encoding=UTF-8 --to-stdout | \ + $(PERL_PATH) fix-texi.perl >$@+ + mv $@+ $@ + +user-manual.pdf: user-manual.xml + $(RM) $@+ $@ + $(DBLATEX) -o $@+ -p /etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.xsl -s /etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.sty $< mv $@+ $@ gitman.texi: $(MAN_XML) cat-texi.perl $(RM) $@+ $@ - ($(foreach xml,$(MAN_XML),$(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) --to-stdout $(xml);)) | \ - $(PERL_PATH) cat-texi.perl $@ >$@+ + ($(foreach xml,$(MAN_XML),$(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) --encoding=UTF-8 \ + --to-stdout $(xml);)) | $(PERL_PATH) cat-texi.perl $@ >$@+ mv $@+ $@ gitman.info: gitman.texi - $(MAKEINFO) --no-split $*.texi + $(MAKEINFO) --no-split --no-validate $*.texi $(patsubst %.txt,%.texi,$(MAN_TXT)): %.texi : %.xml $(RM) $@+ $@ @@ -219,7 +236,12 @@ $(patsubst %.txt,%.html,$(wildcard howto/*.txt)): %.html : %.txt install-webdoc : html sh ./install-webdoc.sh $(WEBDOC_DEST) -quick-install: +quick-install: quick-install-man + +quick-install-man: sh ./install-doc-quick.sh $(DOC_REF) $(DESTDIR)$(mandir) +quick-install-html: + sh ./install-doc-quick.sh $(HTML_REF) $(DESTDIR)$(htmldir) + .PHONY: .FORCE-GIT-VERSION-FILE diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.7.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9065a0e273 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.7.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +GIT v1.5.4.7 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since 1.5.4.7 +------------------- + + * Removed support for an obsolete gitweb request URI, whose + implementation ran "git diff" Porcelain, instead of using plumbing, + which would have run an external diff command specified in the + repository configuration as the gitweb user. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d5e85cb70e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +GIT v1.5.5.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since 1.5.5.5 +------------------- + + * Removed support for an obsolete gitweb request URI, whose + implementation ran "git diff" Porcelain, instead of using plumbing, + which would have run an external diff command specified in the + repository configuration as the gitweb user. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..79da23db5a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +GIT v1.5.6.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since 1.5.6.5 +------------------- + + * Removed support for an obsolete gitweb request URI, whose + implementation ran "git diff" Porcelain, instead of using plumbing, + which would have run an external diff command specified in the + repository configuration as the gitweb user. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..49d7a1cafa --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +GIT v1.6.0.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.0 +------------------ + +* "git diff --cc" did not honor content mangling specified by + gitattributes and core.autocrlf when reading from the work tree. + +* "git diff --check" incorrectly detected new trailing blank lines when + whitespace check was in effect. + +* "git for-each-ref" tried to dereference NULL when asked for '%(body)" on + a tag with a single incomplete line as its payload. + +* "git format-patch" peeked before the beginning of a string when + "format.headers" variable is empty (a misconfiguration). + +* "git help help" did not work correctly. + +* "git mailinfo" (hence "git am") was unhappy when MIME multipart message + contained garbage after the finishing boundary. + +* "git mailinfo" also was unhappy when the "From: " line only had a bare + e-mail address. + +* "git merge" did not refresh the index correctly when a merge resulted in + a fast-forward. + +* "git merge" did not resolve a truly trivial merges that can be done + without content level merges. + +* "git svn dcommit" to a repository with URL that has embedded usernames + did not work correctly. + +Contains other various documentation fixes. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7a9646fc4f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +GIT v1.6.0.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.0.1 +-------------------- + +* Installation on platforms that needs .exe suffix to git-* programs were + broken in 1.6.0.1. + +* Installation on filesystems without symbolic links support did nto + work well. + +* In-tree documentations and test scripts now use "git foo" form to set a + better example, instead of the "git-foo" form (which is an acceptable + form if you have "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH" in your script) + +* Many commands did not use the correct working tree location when used + with GIT_WORK_TREE environment settings. + +* Some systems needs to use compatibility fnmach and regex libraries + independent from each other; the compat/ area has been reorganized to + allow this. + + +* "git apply --unidiff-zero" incorrectly applied a -U0 patch that inserts + a new line before the second line. + +* "git blame -c" did not exactly work like "git annotate" when range + boundaries are involved. + +* "git checkout file" when file is still unmerged checked out contents from + a random high order stage, which was confusing. + +* "git clone $there $here/" with extra trailing slashes after explicit + local directory name $here did not work as expected. + +* "git diff" on tracked contents with CRLF line endings did not drive "less" + intelligently when showing added or removed lines. + +* "git diff --dirstat -M" did not add changes in subdirectories up + correctly for renamed paths. + +* "git diff --cumulative" did not imply "--dirstat". + +* "git for-each-ref refs/heads/" did not work as expected. + +* "git gui" allowed users to feed patch without any context to be applied. + +* "git gui" botched parsing "diff" output when a line that begins with two + dashes and a space gets removed or a line that begins with two pluses + and a space gets added. + +* "git gui" translation updates and i18n fixes. + +* "git index-pack" is more careful against disk corruption while completing + a thin pack. + +* "git log -i --grep=pattern" did not ignore case; neither "git log -E + --grep=pattern" triggered extended regexp. + +* "git log --pretty="%ad" --date=short" did not use short format when + showing the timestamp. + +* "git log --author=author" match incorrectly matched with the + timestamp part of "author " line in commit objects. + +* "git log -F --author=author" did not work at all. + +* Build procedure for "git shell" that used stub versions of some + functions and globals was not understood by linkers on some platforms. + +* "git stash" was fooled by a stat-dirty but otherwise unmodified paths + and refused to work until the user refreshed the index. + +* "git svn" was broken on Perl before 5.8 with recent fixes to reduce + use of temporary files. + +* "git verify-pack -v" did not work correctly when given more than one + packfile. + +Also contains many documentation updates. + +-- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.6.0.1-78-g3632cfc +echo O=$(git describe maint) +git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ae0577836a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +GIT v1.6.0.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.0.2 +-------------------- + +* "git archive --format=zip" did not honor core.autocrlf while + --format=tar did. + +* Continuing "git rebase -i" was very confused when the user left modified + files in the working tree while resolving conflicts. + +* Continuing "git rebase -i" was also very confused when the user left + some staged changes in the index after "edit". + +* "git rebase -i" now honors the pre-rebase hook, just like the + other rebase implementations "git rebase" and "git rebase -m". + +* "git rebase -i" incorrectly aborted when there is no commit to replay. + +* Behaviour of "git diff --quiet" was inconsistent with "diff --exit-code" + with the output redirected to /dev/null. + +* "git diff --no-index" on binary files no longer outputs a bogus + "diff --git" header line. + +* "git diff" hunk header patterns with multiple elements separated by LF + were not used correctly. + +* Hunk headers in "git diff" default to using extended regular + expressions, fixing some of the internal patterns on non-GNU + platforms. + +* New config "diff.*.xfuncname" exposes extended regular expressions + for user specified hunk header patterns. + +* "git gc" when ejecting otherwise unreachable objects from packfiles into + loose form leaked memory. + +* "git index-pack" was recently broken and mishandled objects added by + thin-pack completion processing under memory pressure. + +* "git index-pack" was recently broken and misbehaved when run from inside + .git/objects/pack/ directory. + +* "git stash apply sash@{1}" was fixed to error out. Prior versions + would have applied stash@{0} incorrectly. + +* "git stash apply" now offers a better suggestion on how to continue + if the working tree is currently dirty. + +* "git for-each-ref --format=%(subject)" fixed for commits with no + no newline in the message body. + +* "git remote" fixed to protect printf from user input. + +* "git remote show -v" now displays all URLs of a remote. + +* "git checkout -b branch" was confused when branch already existed. + +* "git checkout -q" once again suppresses the locally modified file list. + +* "git clone -q", "git fetch -q" asks remote side to not send + progress messages, actually making their output quiet. + +* Cross-directory renames are no longer used when creating packs. This + allows more graceful behavior on filesystems like sshfs. + +* Stale temporary files under $GIT_DIR/objects/pack are now cleaned up + automatically by "git prune". + +* "git merge" once again removes directories after the last file has + been removed from it during the merge. + +* "git merge" did not allocate enough memory for the structure itself when + enumerating the parents of the resulting commit. + +* "git blame -C -C" no longer segfaults while trying to pass blame if + it encounters a submodule reference. + +* "git rm" incorrectly claimed that you have local modifications when a + path was merely stat-dirty. + +* "git svn" fixed to display an error message when 'set-tree' failed, + instead of a Perl compile error. + +* "git submodule" fixed to handle checking out a different commit + than HEAD after initializing the submodule. + +* The "git commit" error message when there are still unmerged + files present was clarified to match "git write-tree". + +* "git init" was confused when core.bare or core.sharedRepository are set + in system or user global configuration file by mistake. When --bare or + --shared is given from the command line, these now override such + settings made outside the repositories. + +* Some segfaults due to uncaught NULL pointers were fixed in multiple + tools such as apply, reset, update-index. + +* Solaris builds now default to OLD_ICONV=1 to avoid compile warnings; + Solaris 8 does not define NEEDS_LIBICONV by default. + +* "Git.pm" tests relied on unnecessarily more recent version of Perl. + +* "gitweb" triggered undef warning on commits without log messages. + +* "gitweb" triggered undef warnings on missing trees. + +* "gitweb" now removes PATH_INFO from its URLs so users don't have + to manually set the URL in the gitweb configuration. + +* Bash completion removed support for legacy "git-fetch", "git-push" + and "git-pull" as these are no longer installed. Dashless form + ("git fetch") is still however supported. + +Many other documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d522661d31 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +GIT v1.6.0.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.0.3 +-------------------- + +* 'git add -p' said "No changes" when only binary files were changed. + +* 'git archive' did not work correctly in bare repositories. + +* 'git checkout -t -b newbranch' when you are on detached HEAD was broken. + +* when we refuse to detect renames because there are too many new or + deleted files, 'git diff' did not say how many there are. + +* 'git push --mirror' tried and failed to push the stash; there is no + point in sending it to begin with. + +* 'git push' did not update the remote tracking reference if the corresponding + ref on the remote end happened to be already up to date. + +* 'git pull $there $branch:$current_branch' did not work when you were on + a branch yet to be born. + +* when giving up resolving a conflicted merge, 'git reset --hard' failed + to remove new paths from the working tree. + +* 'git send-email' had a small fd leak while scanning directory. + +* 'git status' incorrectly reported a submodule directory as an untracked + directory. + +* 'git svn' used deprecated 'git-foo' form of subcommand invocation. + +* 'git update-ref -d' to remove a reference did not honor --no-deref option. + +* Plugged small memleaks here and there. + +* Also contains many documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a08bb96738 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +GIT v1.6.0.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.0.4 +-------------------- + +* "git checkout" used to crash when your HEAD was pointing at a deleted + branch. + +* "git checkout" from an un-checked-out state did not allow switching out + of the current branch. + +* "git diff" always allowed GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF and --no-ext-diff was no-op for + the command. + +* Giving 3 or more tree-ish to "git diff" is supposed to show the combined + diff from second and subsequent trees to the first one, but the order was + screwed up. + +* "git fast-export" did not export all tags. + +* "git ls-files --with-tree=" did not work with options other + than -c, most notably with -m. + +* "git pack-objects" did not make its best effort to honor --max-pack-size + option when a single first object already busted the given limit and + placed many objects in a single pack. + +* "git-p4" fast import frontend was too eager to trigger its keyword expansion + logic, even on a keyword-looking string that does not have closing '$' on the + same line. + +* "git push $there" when the remote $there is defined in $GIT_DIR/branches/$there + behaves more like what cg-push from Cogito used to work. + +* when giving up resolving a conflicted merge, "git reset --hard" failed + to remove new paths from the working tree. + +* "git tag" did not complain when given mutually incompatible set of options. + +* The message constructed in the internal editor was discarded when "git + tag -s" failed to sign the message, which was often caused by the user + not configuring GPG correctly. + +* "make check" cannot be run without sparse; people may have meant to say + "make test" instead, so suggest that. + +* Internal diff machinery had a corner case performance bug that choked on + a large file with many repeated contents. + +* "git repack" used to grab objects out of packs marked with .keep + into a new pack. + +* Many unsafe call to sprintf() style varargs functions are corrected. + +* Also contains quite a few documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..64ece1ffd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +GIT v1.6.0.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since 1.6.0.5 +------------------- + + * "git fsck" had a deep recursion that wasted stack space. + + * "git fast-export" and "git fast-import" choked on an old style + annotated tag that lack the tagger information. + + * "git mergetool -- file" did not correctly skip "--" marker that + signals the end of options list. + + * "git show $tag" segfaulted when an annotated $tag pointed at a + nonexistent object. + + * "git show 2>error" when the standard output is automatically redirected + to the pager redirected the standard error to the pager as well; there + was no need to. + + * "git send-email" did not correctly handle list of addresses when + they had quoted comma (e.g. "Lastname, Givenname" ). + + * Logic to discover branch ancestry in "git svn" was unreliable when + the process to fetch history was interrupted. + + * Removed support for an obsolete gitweb request URI, whose + implementation ran "git diff" Porcelain, instead of using plumbing, + which would have run an external diff command specified in the + repository configuration as the gitweb user. + +Also contains numerous documentation typofixes. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..10b38e6ec1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +GIT v1.6.1.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.1 +------------------ + +* "git describe --all" complained when a commit is described with a tag, + which was nonsense. + +* "git log --pretty=format:%s" did not handle a multi-line subject the + same way as built-in log listers (i.e. shortlog, --pretty=oneline, etc.) + +* "git daemon", and "git merge-file" are more careful when freopen fails + and barf, instead of going on and writing to unopened filehandle. + +Other documentation fixes. + +--- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.6.1-15-ga9e67c8 +echo O=$(git describe maint) +git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..adb7ccab0a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,286 @@ +GIT v1.6.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.6.0 +-------------------- + +When some commands (e.g. "git log", "git diff") spawn pager internally, we +used to make the pager the parent process of the git command that produces +output. This meant that the exit status of the whole thing comes from the +pager, not the underlying git command. We swapped the order of the +processes around and you will see the exit code from the command from now +on. + +(subsystems) + +* gitk can call out to git-gui to view "git blame" output; git-gui in turn + can run gitk from its blame view. + +* Various git-gui updates including updated translations. + +* Various gitweb updates from repo.or.cz installation. + +* Updates to emacs bindings. + +(portability) + +* A few test scripts used nonportable "grep" that did not work well on + some platforms, e.g. Solaris. + +* Sample pre-auto-gc script has OS X support. + +* Makefile has support for (ancient) FreeBSD 4.9. + +(performance) + +* Many operations that are lstat(3) heavy can be told to pre-execute + necessary lstat(3) in parallel before their main operations, which + potentially gives much improved performance for cold-cache cases or in + environments with weak metadata caching (e.g. NFS). + +* The underlying diff machinery to produce textual output has been + optimized, which would result in faster "git blame" processing. + +* Most of the test scripts (but not the ones that try to run servers) + can be run in parallel. + +* Bash completion of refnames in a repository with massive number of + refs has been optimized. + +* Cygwin port uses native stat/lstat implementations when applicable, + which leads to improved performance. + +* "git push" pays attention to alternate repositories to avoid sending + unnecessary objects. + +* "git svn" can rebuild an out-of-date rev_map file. + +(usability, bells and whistles) + +* When you mistype a command name, git helpfully suggests what it guesses + you might have meant to say. help.autocorrect configuration can be set + to a non-zero value to accept the suggestion when git can uniquely + guess. + +* The packfile machinery hopefully is more robust when dealing with + corrupt packs if redundant objects involved in the corruption are + available elsewhere. + +* "git add -N path..." adds the named paths as an empty blob, so that + subsequent "git diff" will show a diff as if they are creation events. + +* "git add" gained a built-in synonym for people who want to say "stage + changes" instead of "add contents to the staging area" which amounts + to the same thing. + +* "git apply" learned --include=paths option, similar to the existing + --exclude=paths option. + +* "git bisect" is careful about a user mistake and suggests testing of + merge base first when good is not a strict ancestor of bad. + +* "git bisect skip" can take a range of commits. + +* "git blame" re-encodes the commit metainfo to UTF-8 from i18n.commitEncoding + by default. + +* "git check-attr --stdin" can check attributes for multiple paths. + +* "git checkout --track origin/hack" used to be a syntax error. It now + DWIMs to create a corresponding local branch "hack", i.e. acts as if you + said "git checkout --track -b hack origin/hack". + +* "git checkout --ours/--theirs" can be used to check out one side of a + conflicting merge during conflict resolution. + +* "git checkout -m" can be used to recreate the initial conflicted state + during conflict resolution. + +* "git cherry-pick" can also utilize rerere for conflict resolution. + +* "git clone" learned to be verbose with -v + +* "git commit --author=$name" can look up author name from existing + commits. + +* output from "git commit" has been reworded in a more concise and yet + more informative way. + +* "git count-objects" reports the on-disk footprint for packfiles and + their corresponding idx files. + +* "git daemon" learned --max-connections= option. + +* "git daemon" exports REMOTE_ADDR to record client address, so that + spawned programs can act differently on it. + +* "git describe --tags" favours closer lightweight tags than farther + annotated tags now. + +* "git diff" learned to mimic --suppress-blank-empty from GNU diff via a + configuration option. + +* "git diff" learned to put more sensible hunk headers for Python, + HTML and ObjC contents. + +* "git diff" learned to vary the a/ vs b/ prefix depending on what are + being compared, controlled by diff.mnemonicprefix configuration. + +* "git diff" learned --dirstat-by-file to count changed files, not number + of lines, when summarizing the global picture. + +* "git diff" learned "textconv" filters --- a binary or hard-to-read + contents can be munged into human readable form and the difference + between the results of the conversion can be viewed (obviously this + cannot produce a patch that can be applied, so this is disabled in + format-patch among other things). + +* "--cached" option to "git diff has an easier to remember synonym "--staged", + to ask "what is the difference between the given commit and the + contents staged in the index?" + +* "git for-each-ref" learned "refname:short" token that gives an + unambiguously abbreviated refname. + +* Auto-numbering of the subject lines is the default for "git + format-patch" now. + +* "git grep" learned to accept -z similar to GNU grep. + +* "git help" learned to use GIT_MAN_VIEWER environment variable before + using "man" program. + +* "git imap-send" can optionally talk SSL. + +* "git index-pack" is more careful against disk corruption while + completing a thin pack. + +* "git log --check" and "git log --exit-code" passes their underlying diff + status with their exit status code. + +* "git log" learned --simplify-merges, a milder variant of --full-history; + "gitk --simplify-merges" is easier to view than with --full-history. + +* "git log" learned "--source" to show what ref each commit was reached + from. + +* "git log" also learned "--simplify-by-decoration" to show the + birds-eye-view of the topology of the history. + +* "git log --pretty=format:" learned "%d" format element that inserts + names of tags that point at the commit. + +* "git merge --squash" and "git merge --no-ff" into an unborn branch are + noticed as user errors. + +* "git merge -s $strategy" can use a custom built strategy if you have a + command "git-merge-$strategy" on your $PATH. + +* "git pull" (and "git fetch") can be told to operate "-v"erbosely or + "-q"uietly. + +* "git push" can be told to reject deletion of refs with receive.denyDeletes + configuration. + +* "git rebase" honours pre-rebase hook; use --no-verify to bypass it. + +* "git rebase -p" uses interactive rebase machinery now to preserve the merges. + +* "git reflog expire branch" can be used in place of "git reflog expire + refs/heads/branch". + +* "git remote show $remote" lists remote branches one-per-line now. + +* "git send-email" can be given revision range instead of files and + maildirs on the command line, and automatically runs format-patch to + generate patches for the given revision range. + +* "git submodule foreach" subcommand allows you to iterate over checked + out submodules. + +* "git submodule sync" subcommands allows you to update the origin URL + recorded in submodule directories from the toplevel .gitmodules file. + +* "git svn branch" can create new branches on the other end. + +* "gitweb" can use more saner PATH_INFO based URL. + +(internal) + +* "git hash-object" learned to lie about the path being hashed, so that + correct gitattributes processing can be done while hashing contents + stored in a temporary file. + +* various callers of git-merge-recursive avoid forking it as an external + process. + +* Git class defined in "Git.pm" can be subclasses a bit more easily. + +* We used to link GNU regex library as a compatibility layer for some + platforms, but it turns out it is not necessary on most of them. + +* Some path handling routines used fixed number of buffers used alternately + but depending on the call depth, this arrangement led to hard to track + bugs. This issue is being addressed. + + +Fixes since v1.6.0 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.6.0.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + +* Porcelains implemented as shell scripts were utterly confused when you + entered to a subdirectory of a work tree from sideways, following a + symbolic link (this may need to be backported to older releases later). + +* Tracking symbolic links would work better on filesystems whose lstat() + returns incorrect st_size value for them. + +* "git add" and "git update-index" incorrectly allowed adding S/F when S + is a tracked symlink that points at a directory D that has a path F in + it (we still need to fix a similar nonsense when S is a submodule and F + is a path in it). + +* "git am" after stopping at a broken patch lost --whitespace, -C, -p and + --3way options given from the command line initially. + +* "git diff --stdin" used to take two trees on a line and compared them, + but we dropped support for such a use case long time ago. This has + been resurrected. + +* "git filter-branch" failed to rewrite a tag name with slashes in it. + +* "git http-push" did not understand URI scheme other than opaquelocktoken + when acquiring a lock from the server (this may need to be backported to + older releases later). + +* After "git rebase -p" stopped with conflicts while replaying a merge, + "git rebase --continue" did not work (may need to be backported to older + releases). + +* "git revert" records relative to which parent a revert was made when + reverting a merge. Together with new documentation that explains issues + around reverting a merge and merging from the updated branch later, this + hopefully will reduce user confusion (this may need to be backported to + older releases later). + +* "git rm --cached" used to allow an empty blob that was added earlier to + be removed without --force, even when the file in the work tree has + since been modified. + +* "git push --tags --all $there" failed with generic usage message without + telling saying these two options are incompatible. + +* "git log --author/--committer" match used to potentially match the + timestamp part, exposing internal implementation detail. Also these did + not work with --fixed-strings match at all. + +* "gitweb" did not mark non-ASCII characters imported from external HTML fragments + correctly. + +-- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.6.1-rc3-74-gf66bc5f +echo O=$(git describe master) +git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1a80626781 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +GIT v1.6.2 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.6.1 +-------------------- + +(subsystems) + +(portability) + +(performance) + +(usability, bells and whistles) + +(internal) + + +Fixes since v1.6.1 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.6.1.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + +-- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.6.1 +echo O=$(git describe master) +git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 841bead9db..ba07c8c571 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ run git diff --check on your changes before you commit. (1a) Try to be nice to older C compilers -We try to support wide range of C compilers to compile +We try to support a wide range of C compilers to compile git with. That means that you should not use C99 initializers, even if a lot of compilers grok it. @@ -222,6 +222,9 @@ D-C-O. Indeed you are encouraged to do so. Do not forget to place an in-body "From: " line at the beginning to properly attribute the change to its true author (see (2) above). +Also notice that a real name is used in the Signed-off-by: line. Please +don't hide your real name. + Some people also put extra tags at the end. "Acked-by:" says that the patch was reviewed by the person who @@ -456,3 +459,30 @@ This should help you to submit patches inline using KMail. 5) Back in the compose window: add whatever other text you wish to the message, complete the addressing and subject fields, and press send. + + +Gmail +----- + +Submitting properly formatted patches via Gmail is simple now that +IMAP support is available. First, edit your ~/.gitconfig to specify your +account settings: + +[imap] + folder = "[Gmail]/Drafts" + host = imaps://imap.gmail.com + user = user@gmail.com + pass = p4ssw0rd + port = 993 + sslverify = false + +Next, ensure that your Gmail settings are correct. In "Settings" the +"Use Unicode (UTF-8) encoding for outgoing messages" should be checked. + +Once your commits are ready to send to the mailing list, run the following +command to send the patch emails to your Gmail Drafts folder. + + $ git format-patch -M --stdout origin/master | git imap-send + +Go to your Gmail account, open the Drafts folder, find the patch email, fill +in the To: and CC: fields and send away! diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf index 40d43b78ee..1e735df3bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf +++ b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ # Show GIT link as: (
); if section is defined, else just show # the command. +[macros] +(?su)[\\]?(?Plinkgit):(?P\S*?)\[(?P.*?)\]= + [attributes] asterisk=* plus=+ @@ -40,6 +43,26 @@ endif::doctype-manpage[] {title#} endif::docbook-xsl-172[] + +ifdef::docbook-xsl-172[] +ifdef::doctype-manpage[] +# The following two small workarounds insert a simple paragraph after screen +[listingblock] +{title} + +| + +{title#} + +[verseblock] +{title} +{title%} +{title#} +| + +{title#} +endif::doctype-manpage[] +endif::docbook-xsl-172[] endif::backend-docbook[] ifdef::doctype-manpage[] diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt index 5428111d73..1ab1b96cf9 100644 --- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt @@ -49,6 +49,13 @@ of lines before or after the line given by . Show the result incrementally in a format designed for machine consumption. +--encoding=:: + Specifies the encoding used to output author names + and commit summaries. Setting it to `none` makes blame + output unconverted data. For more information see the + discussion about encoding in the linkgit:git-log[1] + manual page. + --contents :: When is not specified, the command annotates the changes starting backwards from the working tree copy. diff --git a/Documentation/cat-texi.perl b/Documentation/cat-texi.perl index dbc133cd3c..828ec62554 100755 --- a/Documentation/cat-texi.perl +++ b/Documentation/cat-texi.perl @@ -18,8 +18,12 @@ printf '\input texinfo @setfilename gitman.info -@documentencoding us-ascii -@node Top,,%s +@documentencoding UTF-8 +@dircategory Development +@direntry +* Git Man Pages: (gitman). Manual pages for Git revision control system +@end direntry +@node Top,,, (dir) @top Git Manual Pages @documentlanguage en @menu diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 676c39bb84..7408bb2d34 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -117,6 +117,17 @@ core.fileMode:: the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT. See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default. +core.ignoreCygwinFSTricks:: + This option is only used by Cygwin implementation of Git. If false, + the Cygwin stat() and lstat() functions are used. This may be useful + if your repository consists of a few separate directories joined in + one hierarchy using Cygwin mount. If true, Git uses native Win32 API + whenever it is possible and falls back to Cygwin functions only to + handle symbol links. The native mode is more than twice faster than + normal Cygwin l/stat() functions. True by default, unless core.filemode + is true, in which case ignoreCygwinFSTricks is ignored as Cygwin's + POSIX emulation is required to support core.filemode. + core.trustctime:: If false, the ctime differences between the index and the working copy are ignored; useful when the inode change time @@ -358,8 +369,22 @@ core.editor:: `EDITOR` environment variables and then finally `vi`. core.pager:: - The command that git will use to paginate output. Can be overridden - with the `GIT_PAGER` environment variable. + The command that git will use to paginate output. Can + be overridden with the `GIT_PAGER` environment + variable. Note that git sets the `LESS` environment + variable to `FRSX` if it is unset when it runs the + pager. One can change these settings by setting the + `LESS` variable to some other value. Alternately, + these settings can be overridden on a project or + global basis by setting the `core.pager` option. + Setting `core.pager` has no affect on the `LESS` + environment variable behaviour above, so if you want + to override git's default settings this way, you need + to be explicit. For example, to disable the S option + in a backward compatible manner, set `core.pager` + to "`less -+$LESS -FRX`". This will be passed to the + shell by git, which will translate the final command to + "`LESS=FRSX less -+FRSX -FRX`". core.whitespace:: A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to @@ -388,6 +413,15 @@ data writes properly, but can be useful for filesystems that do not use journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or that only journal metadata and not file contents (OS X's HFS+, or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback"). +core.preloadindex:: + Enable parallel index preload for operations like 'git diff' ++ +This can speed up operations like 'git diff' and 'git status' especially +on filesystems like NFS that have weak caching semantics and thus +relatively high IO latencies. With this set to 'true', git will do the +index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing +overlapping IO's. + alias.*:: Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g. after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation @@ -547,9 +581,6 @@ color.status.:: to red). The values of these variables may be specified as in color.branch.. -commit.template:: - Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages. - color.ui:: When set to `always`, always use colors in all git commands which are capable of colored output. When false (or `never`), never. When @@ -557,6 +588,9 @@ color.ui:: terminal. When more specific variables of color.* are set, they always take precedence over this setting. Defaults to false. +commit.template:: + Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages. + diff.autorefreshindex:: When using 'git-diff' to compare with work tree files, do not consider stat-only change as changed. @@ -576,6 +610,22 @@ diff.external:: you want to use an external diff program only on a subset of your files, you might want to use linkgit:gitattributes[5] instead. +diff.mnemonicprefix:: + If set, 'git-diff' uses a prefix pair that is different from the + standard "a/" and "b/" depending on what is being compared. When + this configuration is in effect, reverse diff output also swaps + the order of the prefixes: +'git-diff';; + compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree; +'git-diff HEAD';; + compares a (c)ommit and the (w)ork tree; +'git diff --cached';; + compares a (c)ommit and the (i)ndex; +'git-diff HEAD:file1 file2';; + compares an (o)bject and a (w)ork tree entity; +'git diff --no-index a b';; + compares two non-git things (1) and (2). + diff.renameLimit:: The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename detection; equivalent to the 'git-diff' option '-l'. @@ -585,6 +635,10 @@ diff.renames:: will enable basic rename detection. If set to "copies" or "copy", it will detect copies, as well. +diff.suppress-blank-empty:: + A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space + before each empty output line. Defaults to false. + fetch.unpackLimit:: If the number of objects fetched over the git native transfer is below this @@ -597,10 +651,11 @@ fetch.unpackLimit:: `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead. format.numbered:: - A boolean which can enable sequence numbers in patch subjects. - Setting this option to "auto" will enable it only if there is - more than one patch. See --numbered option in - linkgit:git-format-patch[1]. + A boolean which can enable or disable sequence numbers in patch + subjects. It defaults to "auto" which enables it only if there + is more than one patch. It can be enabled or disabled for all + messages by setting it to "true" or "false". See --numbered + option in linkgit:git-format-patch[1]. format.headers:: Additional email headers to include in a patch to be submitted @@ -668,18 +723,6 @@ gc.rerereunresolved:: kept for this many days when 'git-rerere gc' is run. The default is 15 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1]. -rerere.autoupdate:: - When set to true, `git-rerere` updates the index with the - resulting contents after it cleanly resolves conflicts using - previously recorded resolution. Defaults to false. - -rerere.enabled:: - Activate recording of resolved conflicts, so that identical - conflict hunks can be resolved automatically, should they - be encountered again. linkgit:git-rerere[1] command is by - default enabled if you create `rr-cache` directory under - `$GIT_DIR`, but can be disabled by setting this option to false. - gitcvs.enabled:: Whether the CVS server interface is enabled for this repository. See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1]. @@ -688,7 +731,7 @@ gitcvs.logfile:: Path to a log file where the CVS server interface well... logs various stuff. See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1]. -gitcvs.usecrlfattr +gitcvs.usecrlfattr:: If true, the server will look up the `crlf` attribute for files to determine the '-k' modes to use. If `crlf` is set, the '-k' mode will be left blank, so cvs clients will @@ -750,6 +793,14 @@ gui.diffcontext:: Specifies how many context lines should be used in calls to diff made by the linkgit:git-gui[1]. The default is "5". +gui.encoding:: + Specifies the default encoding to use for displaying of + file contents in linkgit:git-gui[1] and linkgit:gitk[1]. + It can be overridden by setting the 'encoding' attribute + for relevant files (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). + If this option is not set, the tools default to the + locale encoding. + gui.matchtrackingbranch:: Determines if new branches created with linkgit:git-gui[1] should default to tracking remote branches with matching names or @@ -772,6 +823,73 @@ gui.spellingdictionary:: the linkgit:git-gui[1]. When set to "none" spell checking is turned off. +gui.fastcopyblame:: + If true, 'git gui blame' uses '-C' instead of '-C -C' for original + location detection. It makes blame significantly faster on huge + repositories at the expense of less thorough copy detection. + +gui.copyblamethreshold:: + Specifies the threshold to use in 'git gui blame' original location + detection, measured in alphanumeric characters. See the + linkgit:git-blame[1] manual for more information on copy detection. + +gui.blamehistoryctx:: + Specifies the radius of history context in days to show in + linkgit:gitk[1] for the selected commit, when the `Show History + Context` menu item is invoked from 'git gui blame'. If this + variable is set to zero, the whole history is shown. + +guitool..cmd:: + Specifies the shell command line to execute when the corresponding item + of the linkgit:git-gui[1] `Tools` menu is invoked. This option is + mandatory for every tool. The command is executed from the root of + the working directory, and in the environment it receives the name of + the tool as 'GIT_GUITOOL', the name of the currently selected file as + 'FILENAME', and the name of the current branch as 'CUR_BRANCH' (if + the head is detached, 'CUR_BRANCH' is empty). + +guitool..needsfile:: + Run the tool only if a diff is selected in the GUI. It guarantees + that 'FILENAME' is not empty. + +guitool..noconsole:: + Run the command silently, without creating a window to display its + output. + +guitool..norescan:: + Don't rescan the working directory for changes after the tool + finishes execution. + +guitool..confirm:: + Show a confirmation dialog before actually running the tool. + +guitool..argprompt:: + Request a string argument from the user, and pass it to the tool + through the 'ARGS' environment variable. Since requesting an + argument implies confirmation, the 'confirm' option has no effect + if this is enabled. If the option is set to 'true', 'yes', or '1', + the dialog uses a built-in generic prompt; otherwise the exact + value of the variable is used. + +guitool..revprompt:: + Request a single valid revision from the user, and set the + 'REVISION' environment variable. In other aspects this option + is similar to 'argprompt', and can be used together with it. + +guitool..revunmerged:: + Show only unmerged branches in the 'revprompt' subdialog. + This is useful for tools similar to merge or rebase, but not + for things like checkout or reset. + +guitool..title:: + Specifies the title to use for the prompt dialog. The default + is the tool name. + +guitool..prompt:: + Specifies the general prompt string to display at the top of + the dialog, before subsections for 'argprompt' and 'revprompt'. + The default value includes the actual command. + help.browser:: Specify the browser that will be used to display help in the 'web' format. See linkgit:git-help[1]. @@ -781,6 +899,15 @@ help.format:: Values 'man', 'info', 'web' and 'html' are supported. 'man' is the default. 'web' and 'html' are the same. +help.autocorrect:: + Automatically correct and execute mistyped commands after + waiting for the given number of deciseconds (0.1 sec). If more + than one command can be deduced from the entered text, nothing + will be executed. If the value of this option is negative, + the corrected command will be executed immediately. If the + value is 0 - the command will be just shown but not executed. + This is the default. + http.proxy:: Override the HTTP proxy, normally configured using the 'http_proxy' environment variable (see linkgit:curl[1]). This can be overridden @@ -838,6 +965,10 @@ i18n.logOutputEncoding:: Character encoding the commit messages are converted to when running 'git-log' and friends. +imap:: + The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described + in linkgit:git-imap-send[1]. + instaweb.browser:: Specify the program that will be used to browse your working repository in gitweb. See linkgit:git-instaweb[1]. @@ -873,8 +1004,6 @@ man.viewer:: Specify the programs that may be used to display help in the 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1]. -include::merge-config.txt[] - man..cmd:: Specify the command to invoke the specified man viewer. The specified command is evaluated in shell with the man page @@ -884,6 +1013,8 @@ man..path:: Override the path for the given tool that may be used to display help in the 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1]. +include::merge-config.txt[] + mergetool..path:: Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case your tool is not in the PATH. @@ -913,6 +1044,16 @@ mergetool.keepBackup:: is set to `false` then this file is not preserved. Defaults to `true` (i.e. keep the backup files). +mergetool.keepTemporaries:: + When invoking a custom merge tool, git uses a set of temporary + files to pass to the tool. If the tool returns an error and this + variable is set to `true`, then these temporary files will be + preserved, otherwise they will be removed after the tool has + exited. Defaults to `false`. + +mergetool.prompt:: + Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program. + pack.window:: The size of the window used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no window size is given on the command line. Defaults to 10. @@ -979,9 +1120,11 @@ pack.packSizeLimit:: linkgit:git-repack[1]. pager.:: - Allows to set your own pager preferences for each command, overriding - the default. If `\--pager` or `\--no-pager` is specified on the command - line, it takes precedence over this option. + Allows turning on or off pagination of the output of a + particular git subcommand when writing to a tty. If + `\--paginate` or `\--no-pager` is specified on the command line, + it takes precedence over this option. To disable pagination for + all commands, set `core.pager` or 'GIT_PAGER' to "`cat`". pull.octopus:: The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches @@ -990,6 +1133,41 @@ pull.octopus:: pull.twohead:: The default merge strategy to use when pulling a single branch. +receive.fsckObjects:: + If it is set to true, git-receive-pack will check all received + objects. It will abort in the case of a malformed object or a + broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling objects. + Defaults to false. + +receive.unpackLimit:: + If the number of objects received in a push is below this + limit then the objects will be unpacked into loose object + files. However if the number of received objects equals or + exceeds this limit then the received pack will be stored as + a pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the + pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster, + especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of + `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead. + +receive.denyDeletes:: + If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that deletes + the ref. Use this to prevent such a ref deletion via a push. + +receive.denyCurrentBranch:: + If set to true or "refuse", receive-pack will deny a ref update + to the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository. + Such a push is potentially dangerous because it brings the HEAD + out of sync with the index and working tree. If set to "warn", + print a warning of such a push to stderr, but allow the push to + proceed. If set to false or "ignore", allow such pushes with no + message. Defaults to "warn". + +receive.denyNonFastForwards:: + If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update which is + not a fast forward. Use this to prevent such an update via a push, + even if that push is forced. This configuration variable is + set when initializing a shared repository. + remote..url:: The URL of a remote repository. See linkgit:git-fetch[1] or linkgit:git-push[1]. @@ -1039,6 +1217,18 @@ repack.usedeltabaseoffset:: "false" and repack. Access from old git versions over the native protocol are unaffected by this option. +rerere.autoupdate:: + When set to true, `git-rerere` updates the index with the + resulting contents after it cleanly resolves conflicts using + previously recorded resolution. Defaults to false. + +rerere.enabled:: + Activate recording of resolved conflicts, so that identical + conflict hunks can be resolved automatically, should they + be encountered again. linkgit:git-rerere[1] command is by + default enabled if you create `rr-cache` directory under + `$GIT_DIR`, but can be disabled by setting this option to false. + showbranch.default:: The default set of branches for linkgit:git-show-branch[1]. See linkgit:git-show-branch[1]. @@ -1075,6 +1265,11 @@ tar.umask:: archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) and linkgit:git-archive[1]. +transfer.unpackLimit:: + When `fetch.unpackLimit` or `receive.unpackLimit` are + not set, the value of this variable is used instead. + The default value is 100. + url..insteadOf:: Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to start, instead, with . In cases where some site serves a @@ -1103,37 +1298,6 @@ user.signingkey:: unchanged to gpg's --local-user parameter, so you may specify a key using any method that gpg supports. -imap:: - The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described - in linkgit:git-imap-send[1]. - -receive.fsckObjects:: - If it is set to true, git-receive-pack will check all received - objects. It will abort in the case of a malformed object or a - broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling objects. - Defaults to false. - -receive.unpackLimit:: - If the number of objects received in a push is below this - limit then the objects will be unpacked into loose object - files. However if the number of received objects equals or - exceeds this limit then the received pack will be stored as - a pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the - pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster, - especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of - `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead. - -receive.denyNonFastForwards:: - If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update which is - not a fast forward. Use this to prevent such an update via a push, - even if that push is forced. This configuration variable is - set when initializing a shared repository. - -transfer.unpackLimit:: - When `fetch.unpackLimit` or `receive.unpackLimit` are - not set, the value of this variable is used instead. - The default value is 100. - web.browser:: Specify a web browser that may be used by some commands. Currently only linkgit:git-instaweb[1] and linkgit:git-help[1] diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt index 400cbb3b1c..1eeb1c7683 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt @@ -46,6 +46,22 @@ That is, from the left to the right: . path for "dst"; only exists for C or R. . an LF or a NUL when '-z' option is used, to terminate the record. +Possible status letters are: + +- A: addition of a file +- C: copy of a file into a new one +- D: deletion of a file +- M: modification of the contents or mode of a file +- R: renaming of a file +- T: change in the type of the file +- U: file is unmerged (you must complete the merge before it can +be committed) +- X: "unknown" change type (most probably a bug, please report it) + +Status letters C and R are always followed by a score (denoting the +percentage of similarity between the source and target of the move or +copy), and are the only ones to be so. + is shown as all 0's if a file is new on the filesystem and it is out of sync with the index. diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt index 517e1eba3c..0f25ba7e38 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt @@ -143,15 +143,15 @@ different from it. A `-` character in the column N means that the line appears in fileN but it does not appear in the result. A `+` character -in the column N means that the line appears in the last file, +in the column N means that the line appears in the result, and fileN does not have that line (in other words, the line was added, from the point of view of that parent). In the above example output, the function signature was changed from both files (hence two `-` removals from both file1 and file2, plus `++` to mean one line that was added does not appear -in either file1 nor file2). Also two other lines are the same -from file1 but do not appear in file2 (hence prefixed with ` +`). +in either file1 nor file2). Also eight other lines are the same +from file1 but do not appear in file2 (hence prefixed with `{plus}`). When shown by `git diff-tree -c`, it compares the parents of a merge commit with the merge result (i.e. file1..fileN are the diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index cba90fd27c..43793d7500 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -19,16 +19,12 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] ifndef::git-format-patch[] -p:: +-u:: Generate patch (see section on generating patches). {git-diff? This is the default.} endif::git-format-patch[] --u:: - Synonym for "-p". - -U:: - Shorthand for "--unified=". - --unified=:: Generate diffs with lines of context instead of the usual three. Implies "-p". @@ -59,12 +55,14 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] lines. --dirstat[=limit]:: - Output only the sub-directories that are impacted by a diff, - and to what degree they are impacted. You can override the - default cut-off in percent (3) by "--dirstat=limit". If you - want to enable "cumulative" directory statistics, you can use - the "--cumulative" flag, which adds up percentages recursively - even when they have been already reported for a sub-directory. + Output the distribution of relative amount of changes (number of lines added or + removed) for each sub-directory. Directories with changes below + a cut-off percent (3% by default) are not shown. The cut-off percent + can be set with "--dirstat=limit". Changes in a child directory is not + counted for the parent directory, unless "--cumulative" is used. + +--dirstat-by-file[=limit]:: + Same as --dirstat, but counts changed files instead of lines. --summary:: Output a condensed summary of extended header information @@ -107,9 +105,9 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --exit-code. --full-index:: - Instead of the first handful characters, show full - object name of pre- and post-image blob on the "index" - line when generating a patch format output. + Instead of the first handful of characters, show the full + pre- and post-image blob object names on the "index" + line when generating patch format output. --binary:: In addition to --full-index, output "binary diff" that @@ -118,7 +116,7 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --abbrev[=]:: Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header - lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix. This is + lines, show only a partial prefix. This is independent of --full-index option above, which controls the diff-patch output format. Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=. @@ -135,7 +133,8 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]:: Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`), Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their - type (mode) changed (`T`), are Unmerged (`U`), are + type (i.e. regular file, symlink, submodule, ...) changed (`T`), + are Unmerged (`U`), are Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`). Any combination of the filter characters may be used. When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all @@ -187,30 +186,28 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] can name which subdirectory to make the output relative to by giving a as an argument. +-a:: --text:: Treat all files as text. --a:: - Shorthand for "--text". - --ignore-space-at-eol:: Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL. +-b:: --ignore-space-change:: Ignore changes in amount of whitespace. This ignores whitespace at line end, and considers all other sequences of one or more whitespace characters to be equivalent. --b:: - Shorthand for "--ignore-space-change". - +-w:: --ignore-all-space:: Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores differences even if one line has whitespace where the other line has none. --w:: - Shorthand for "--ignore-all-space". +--inter-hunk-context=:: + Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number + of lines, thereby fusing hunks that are close to each other. --exit-code:: Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1). diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index 2b6d6c8654..7c129cb24f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git add' [-n] [-v] [--force | -f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p] - [--all | [--update | -u]] [--refresh] [--ignore-errors] [--] - ... + [--all | [--update | -u]] [--intent-to-add | -N] + [--refresh] [--ignore-errors] [--] ... DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -92,6 +92,15 @@ OPTIONS and add all untracked files that are not ignored by '.gitignore' mechanism. + +-N:: +--intent-to-add:: + Record only the fact that the path will be added later. An entry + for the path is placed in the index with no content. This is + useful for, among other things, showing the unstaged content of + such files with 'git diff' and committing them with 'git commit + -a'. + --refresh:: Don't add the file(s), but only refresh their stat() information in the index. diff --git a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt index 8b6b56a544..0aba022ba6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt @@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ DESCRIPTION Annotates each line in the given file with information from the commit which introduced the line. Optionally annotate from a given revision. +The only difference between this command and linkgit:git-blame[1] is that +they use slightly different output formats, and this command exists only +for backward compatibility to support existing scripts, and provide more +familiar command name for people coming from other SCM systems. + OPTIONS ------- include::blame-options.txt[] diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt index feb51f124a..e726510ab1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt @@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ SYNOPSIS [--allow-binary-replacement | --binary] [--reject] [-z] [-pNUM] [-CNUM] [--inaccurate-eof] [--recount] [--cached] [--whitespace=] - [--exclude=PATH] [--directory=] [--verbose] [...] + [--exclude=PATH] [--include=PATH] [--directory=] + [--verbose] [...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -137,6 +138,17 @@ discouraged. be useful when importing patchsets, where you want to exclude certain files or directories. +--include=:: + Apply changes to files matching the given path pattern. This can + be useful when importing patchsets, where you want to include certain + files or directories. ++ +When --exclude and --include patterns are used, they are examined in the +order they appear on the command line, and the first match determines if a +patch to each path is used. A patch to a path that does not match any +include/exclude pattern is used by default if there is no include pattern +on the command line, and ignored if there is any include pattern. + --whitespace=:: When applying a patch, detect a new or modified line that has whitespace errors. What are considered whitespace errors is diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt index c7981efcd9..147ea38197 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt @@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ on the subcommand: git bisect start [ [...]] [--] [...] git bisect bad [] git bisect good [...] - git bisect skip [...] + git bisect skip [(|)...] git bisect reset [] git bisect visualize git bisect replay git bisect log git bisect run ... -This command uses 'git-rev-list --bisect' to help drive the +This command uses 'git rev-list --bisect' to help drive the binary search process to find which change introduced a bug, given an old "good" commit object name and a later "bad" commit object name. @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ $ git bisect visualize to see the currently remaining suspects in 'gitk'. `visualize` is a bit too long to type and `view` is provided as a synonym. -If 'DISPLAY' environment variable is not set, 'git-log' is used +If 'DISPLAY' environment variable is not set, 'git log' is used instead. You can even give command line options such as `-p` and `--stat`. @@ -164,6 +164,25 @@ But computing the commit to test may be slower afterwards and git may eventually not be able to tell the first bad among a bad and one or more "skip"ped commits. +You can even skip a range of commits, instead of just one commit, +using the "''..''" notation. For example: + +------------ +$ git bisect skip v2.5..v2.6 +------------ + +would mean that no commit between `v2.5` excluded and `v2.6` included +can be tested. + +Note that if you want to also skip the first commit of a range you can +use something like: + +------------ +$ git bisect skip v2.5 v2.5..v2.6 +------------ + +and the commit pointed to by `v2.5` will be skipped too. + Cutting down bisection by giving more parameters to bisect start ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -215,7 +234,7 @@ tweaks (e.g., s/#define DEBUG 0/#define DEBUG 1/ in a header file, or work around other problem this bisection is not interested in") applied to the revision being tested. -To cope with such a situation, after the inner 'git-bisect' finds the +To cope with such a situation, after the inner 'git bisect' finds the next revision to test, with the "run" script, you can apply that tweak before compiling, run the real test, and after the test decides if the revision (possibly with the needed tweaks) passed the test, rewind the diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt index 2b821f2a1d..8c2ac12f5d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt @@ -3,12 +3,14 @@ git-check-attr(1) NAME ---- -git-check-attr - Display gitattributes information. +git-check-attr - Display gitattributes information SYNOPSIS -------- +[verse] 'git check-attr' attr... [--] pathname... +'git check-attr' --stdin [-z] attr... < DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -17,11 +19,68 @@ For every pathname, this command will list if each attr is 'unspecified', OPTIONS ------- +--stdin:: + Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line. + +-z:: + Only meaningful with `--stdin`; paths are separated with + NUL character instead of LF. + \--:: Interpret all preceding arguments as attributes, and all following arguments as path names. If not supplied, only the first argument will be treated as an attribute. +OUTPUT +------ + +The output is of the form: + COLON SP COLON SP LF + +Where is the path of a file being queried, is an attribute +being queried and can be either: + +'unspecified';; when the attribute is not defined for the path. +'unset';; when the attribute is defined to false. +'set';; when the attribute is defined to true. +;; when a value has been assigned to the attribute. + +EXAMPLES +-------- + +In the examples, the following '.gitattributes' file is used: +--------------- +*.java diff=java -crlf myAttr +NoMyAttr.java !myAttr +README caveat=unspecified +--------------- + +* Listing a single attribute: +--------------- +$ git check-attr diff org/example/MyClass.java +org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java +--------------- + +* Listing multiple attributes for a file: +--------------- +$ git check-attr crlf diff myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java +org/example/MyClass.java: crlf: unset +org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java +org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set +--------------- + +* Listing attribute for multiple files: +--------------- +$ git check-attr myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java org/example/NoMyAttr.java +org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set +org/example/NoMyAttr.java: myAttr: unspecified +--------------- + +* Not all values are equally unambiguous: +--------------- +$ git check-attr caveat README +README: caveat: unspecified +--------------- SEE ALSO -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 5aa69c0e12..9cd51514db 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ git-checkout - Checkout a branch or paths to the working tree SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [[--track | --no-track] -b [-l]] [-m] [] -'git checkout' [] [--] ... +'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [--track | --no-track] [-b [-l]] [-m] [] +'git checkout' [-f|--ours|--theirs|-m|--conflict=